“How can you tell?” I wondered if we were that obvious.
“Your eyes are blazing, and you look ready to bite someone,” she said.
“He heard you say Erik’s name and is furious and wanted to know if he could kill him.”
“No!” she yelled. I’m sure Hunter heard that because his scent faded from me.
“Don’t worry, he isn’t.”
I’m leaving for a while, he told me.
You better not be going after Erik.
You’re on a first name basis with him? he said all full of jealousy.
Oh please. The man helped us and is one of your own, so quit it. Bye.
“I’ve got to leave. I feel weird today,” Chloe admitted.
“How long has this been going on?” I asked.
“Well we talk all the time. Sometimes we text when he’s just waiting in his patrol car,” she confessed. “My feelings have grown these last few weeks.”
“Let’s go. You can stay with us tonight,” I said.
We just walked outside the hotel when the sheriff pulled up in his squad car and his eyes made contact with Chloe’s.
“I can’t see him when he doesn’t want me,” she whispered to me. He was in front of us before I realized it. His hands on Chloe’s face.
“Chloe, who dared make you cry?” he snarled as he caressed her cheek.
“Smith, what are you doing here?” my husband asked in a gruff and threatening tone. Just as he said that there was a change in Hunter.
“So you know why I’m here,” he confirmed.
“You’re my new Beta,” Hunter spoke.
“Yes,” he said before turning back to Chloe, his eyes constantly turning to her like he was fighting two urges at once.
“Are you going to tell me whose throat I’m going to shred?”
“Your own,” Hunter educated Erik.
“I made you cry?!” Erik faltered. “I wouldn’t do anything to hurt you.” He hadn’t stop touching her, which to me was weird because, from what I learned, it wasn’t something they all did. Especially because they weren’t attracted to each other until they mated. Hunter looked at them with concern.
Are you worried, my love, I asked him.
A little, they shouldn’t be this close unless they mated, but they haven’t, he said in confusion.
We were all standing there when the moon started to rise. Erik’s face changed, and he looked at Hunter then back at Chloe.
“Erik take her out of here right now,” Hunter roared. That’s when I noticed the change in the air. The tension between the two was about to come to a head. Then it dawned on me. They were about to mate.
Erik scooped up his mate, barely making it to the edge of the forest before I heard him howl loudly. I couldn’t help but smile before I turned to Hunter.
“So she’s delusional?” I sneered at my mate.
“They must have had a stronger bond than most because he’s the Beta,” he guessed.
“Do most usually find their mates during the full moon?” I asked as he wrapped me up in his arms.
He squeezed me tight, then he said, “No, but it’s probably because he needed to become Beta first, and that had to wait until the full moon.”
Looking up at my handsome beast, I inquired, “What happened to my parents?”
I felt his tension before he answered, “They decided to leave. Are you upset?”
“No. I didn’t want to have you eat them,” she said with a chuckle.
“I wouldn’t have eatenthem—I would’ve just torn them to bits,” he admitted as he leaned in to nuzzle my neck.
“Exactly, my love.” I let out a sigh of pleasure.
“I’m sorry about being an ass,” he whispered as he bent to kiss my lips.
“Don’t let it happen again. Let’s go home so you can make it up to me.”
“Damn it! I hate being Alpha sometimes. I can’t babe. I have to patrol tonight because of the changes.”
“Pity. I’m going to miss you, my lover,” I goaded as I rubbed my thigh along his thick ridge.
“Is this my punishment for earlier?” he groaned.
I just smiled with an evil grin and a wink.
“Erik is dealing with the next full moon!” he bellowed before leaving me standing outside of the hotel and going to his truck.
See you in the morning, I said sensually.
Get in the truck, he ordered.
I’ve got to work still, I reminded him.
I could hear him huffing before he snarled, Oh, you’ve got to work alright. You’re going to be working my dick. Get in the truck.
With a giggle I rushed inside the hotel. I knew I was going to get it when he got home tonight, but I was looking forward to my mate built up lust.